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Climate Breakthrough Awardees are trailblazers, gamechangers, architects of progress, and, most importantly, problem solvers. They possess the resilience to persevere, the innovation to disrupt, and the leadership to inspire. Click on their profiles below and discover their journeys.

2023 awardees

MEET THE 2023 CLIMATE BREAKTHROUGH AWARDEESGita Syahrani of Indonesia (left) and Jane Fleming Kleeb of the United States (right) are the 2023 Climate Breakthrough Awardees. They join a distinguished group of extraordinary leaders who are working to reduce global annual emissions by hundreds of millions of tons, affect entire industries or regions of the world, and materially change the lives of millions of people.

ISABEL CAVELIER
2022 AWARDEE

COLOMBIA

JAMES IRUNGU MWANGI
2022 AWARDEE

KENYA

ASAR TEAM
2022 AWARDEE

INDIA

KATHRIN GUTMANN
2021 AWARDEE

GERMANY

DENISE FAIRCHILD
2021 AWARDEE

UNITED STATES

SARA JANE AHMED
2021 AWARDEE

PHILIPPINES/BANGLADESH

NICOLE RYCROFT
2020 AWARDEE

CANADA

MOHAMED ADOW
2020 AWARDEE

KENYA

Winning the Climate Breakthrough Award shifted the trajectory of my career as a climate champion.

mohamed adow, 2020 climate breakthrough awardee

TZEPORAH BERMAN
2019 AWARDEE

CANADA

SEBASTIÁN KIND
2019 AWARDEE

ARGENTINA

NGUY THI KHANH
2019 AWARDEE

VIETNAM

ARIEF RABIK
2019 AWARDEE

INDONESIA

TESSA KHAN
2018 AWARDEE

UNITED KINGDOM

BRUCE NILLES
2018 AWARDEE

UNITED STATES

YANG FUQIANG
2017 AWARDEE

CHINA

MAY MEI
2016 AWARDEE

CHINA

JOHN HEPBURN
2016 AWARDEE

AUSTRALIA

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